Male vs. Female Divergence

Age
of Coalescence

Y
(Male)

Genetic material found in mitochondria, the organelles that generate energy for the cell.mtDNA (Female)

Minimum

37,000

120,000

Maximum

49,000

474,000

Whitfield,
L.S., J.E. Suston, and P.N. Goodfellow. 1995. Sequence variation
of the human One of the two sex chromosomes that determines maleness in mammals, carried and passed down from males to males.Y chromosome. Nature 378: 379-380.

In 1995, the Whitfield study
examined both Genetic material found in mitochondria, the organelles that generate energy for the cell.mtDNA and One of the two sex chromosomes that determines maleness in mammals, carried and passed down from males to males.Y chromosome genetics to compare the divergence
times for each. To their surprise, the dates did not match - males
diverged much later than females. The "discrepancy" can be
explain through the biblical creation model. The Bible describes a genetic
bottleneck event that occurred during the Genesis flood. Since all
males on the ark were genetically descended from Noah, but the females were
genetically diverse, we would expect that female genetic diversity would
be greater than male genetic diversity. This biblical model is confirmed through
an examination of Genetic material found in mitochondria, the organelles that generate energy for the cell.mtDNA (Of or referring to the mitochondria, the organelles that generate energy for the cell.mitochondrialDeoxyribonucleic acid: the chemical inside the nucleus of a cell that carries the genetic instructions for making living organisms.DNA) compared to Y-chromosome
genetic diversity.

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